Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into other kinds of writing. This year as a Nieman fellow, she will have the opportunity to begin work in fiction, both on her own and as a course for credit. Scarf says she would like to write a novel, but that she doesn't know if she can "sustain herself in the unknown for the two years it would take to write the novel...
...danger of poltical and ethnic militancy to a great university is that they distort the quality of those delicate relationships and sensibilities that sustain a great university. Indeed, those who adopt militancy as a style of behavior within a university do so precisely because they, for whatever reasons, no longer comprehend the behavioral requisites of a great university. Thus for them a new raison d'etre becomes imperative: the logic of militant confrontation runs its civility-destroying course...
...give-and-take is a crucial feature of America's success at fashioning pluralistic solutions to the conflicting claims of its numerous ethnic subcultures. Over time this process has allowed successive generations of Americans to design a dialectically unique cultural-political synthesis which is general or universal enough to sustain a successful nation-state yet parochial enough to nourish a kaleidoscopic subsystem of ethnic particularisms--some originating and gaining substance solely within the American nation (e.g., Mormons...
They were bolstered by long soul-searching talks with their other two children and their Roman Catholic parish priest. Father Thomas Trapasso advised them that there was "no moral obligation to use extraordinary means to sustain life when there is no realistic hope of some recovery." But when the Quinlans asked doctors to let their daughter die, the doctors refused. Karen was not a minor, they said, and they might be held responsible for her death...
Whatever the text of this week's resolution, the U.S. now has an opportunity to sustain the momentum toward conciliation and consensus by pushing its proposals at forums with considerably more power than the U.N. General Assembly−the IMF'S monetary talks, the negotiations on trade and tariffs, and the producer-consumer conference on energy and raw materials that is expected to convene later this year in Paris...